Matt Glasby

Looking for some cool Halloween decorations? Try these super-fun horror posters by my old pal @andytuohydesign
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop

The beautiful Book of Horror 2025 was released last week. 150 of the scariest films ever made, plus charts, graphs and bespoke illustrations by Barney Bodoano. Couldn’t be prouder. But it where you buy books #horror #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #horrorbooks

A black fine line pen in a crosshatch technique and rolled printing ink on white paper illustration of a signalman standing at the foot of the steps up to his lonely signalbox. The little house shaped box is situated at the bottom of a steep and dank ravine, big slabs of blasted rock rise up to a wooded area, trees trunks, roots and branches twist up into the darkness. The Signalman stares into the mouth of a dark tunnel, rail tracks run parallel to the signalbox into the tunnel. Another figure stands at the mouth of the tunnel, it is shrouded in low lying mist. The only source of illumination is from the light inside the signalbox and a small glowing lamp above the ghostly figure at the tunnel mouth. Dark, damp, dripping, you can imagine the sound of wind blowing through the tunnel and the isolated ravine, not a place for a party but I’d be happy enough there (I’m odd).

Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.

Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it

Thanks Jim!

Matt Glasby: The Horror Of My Life - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Matt Glasby shares his personal horror journey, from childhood scares to modern frights. Find your favorites.

Please welcome @mattglasby.bsky.social to GNoH with his entry in our The Horror of My Life series, where he discusses the films and books that shaped him into the horror fan that he is today.

Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article

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Finally watching Bad Lieutenant, decades after giving up at its grimness Our brave correspondent revisits a gruelling long dark night of the soul (and modern classic?).

The first time our intrepid correspondent watched Abel Ferrara's #BadLieutenant, he turned it off after 30 excruciating minutes.

20-something years later, @mattglasby.bsky.social tries again...

Celebrating 20 years of The Descent via @flicks.bsky.social with an extract from the forthcoming The Book of Horror 2025 out 4 Sept

Epically gory and deeply claustrophobic: The Descent turns 20 We revisit a tense, surprising, and imaginatively disgusting modern classic in this excerpt from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film.

"Down there it’s pitch black. You can get dehydration, disorientation, claustrophobia, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations, visual and aural deterioration."

#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social

“The baddie is an unwieldy, unfrightening opponent.”

90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.

Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Horrors on the horizon: Paranormal, paranoia, psychos and phones A lot of scares are coming to cinemas in coming months – original freak outs alongside some franchise faves.

September and October have a suitably terrifying batch of horrors on the way - from big franchises to intriguing new voices.

@mattglasby.bsky.social highlights what to watch in the lead-up to Halloween – and what to watch out for.

T is for Troll 2: goblins, green gloop and an all-time great “OMG” Featuring no trolls but plenty of unconvincing goblins, it’s the platonic ideal of a bad movie – perfect to add to our pantheon of The A to Z of Trash.

In monthly column The A-to-Z of Trash, bad movie lover Eliza Janssen takes us on an alphabetically-ordered trip through the best bits of the worst films ever.

This month, early fave #Troll2 gets its green, gloopy just desserts, featuring some of the worst-delivered dialogue of all time...

An illustration inspired by the Brocken Spectre phenomenon - a figure full of light in the foreground is projected into shadow on the horizon. Or something.

A black and white illustration inspired by the Jonathan Miller adaptation of the M R James story Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, My Lad. A dark figure in the distance pursues a man pictured in silhouette against a sun setting over the sea

A black and white illustration of the Robert Eggars film Nosferatu. The figure of a woman in early Victorian high mourning walks through a snowy graveyard, flanked by two metal cross shaped grave markers

An ink drawing of the side view of a crow cawing

Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com

How to… make an action movie When was the last great action movie you saw? Exactly. Here’s how to fix that.

Drawing on decades of experience as he explores different facets of the movie biz, @mattglasby.bsky.social poses the question: “When was the last great action movie you saw?”

Exactly. Here’s how to fix that in six not-so-easy steps.

How to… be a film critic Sure, everyone’s a critic… But here’s some good-natured, three-star advice drawn from decades of experience.

With 20 years’ experience behind him - and almost as many failed publications - @mattglasby.bsky.social offers some self-described "three-star advice" for aspiring critics.

Criticism might feel less valued then ever, but these heartfelt and honest thoughts on sharing our passion for film ring true.

Dear writers,
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.

Great! The new illos are some of the scariest in the book

At 65, Bryan Adams is a master of crowd pleasers Backed by a three-piece band and an army of hits, at his Glasgow OVO show, the Canadian rocker makes sure everyone leaves happy

In praise of Bryan Adams discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/review/at-65...

Don't Make Me Laugh Don't Make Me Laugh eBook : Raeside, Julia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

My novel is 99p on Kindle for a limited time! Less than a Mr Whippy. Take it to the park this Bank Holiday weekend and buy it an ice cream. 🍦

Every sentence forward is a sentence closer to done. No one cares how long a thing takes to write. No one ever asks. What matters is whether or not it is finished.

Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.

Just. Keep. Writing.

Colourful mural on the side of a pub on Church Street Glasgow, bearing the city's motto "Let Glasgow Flourish" the crescent moon and Jupiter in the night sky above.

Let Glasgow Flourish, featuring the Moon and Jupiter.

Coming your way in September 2025

REC2 absolutely rules! Give it a chance

In the UK too?

The director is also a lovely guy and he got his dad to make all the interdimensional doorways that feature in the movie (there are quite a few)

Hostile Dimensions, a UK film made with what must have been a budget of a few hundred pounds, is a lot of fun. Currently on Shudder and a breezy 78 minutes long.

How to… make a Bond film From “cast a Bond who can act” to “go nuts with the directors” we have tips for 007’s new owners.

How to… stop getting Bond wrong www.flicks.com.au/features/how...

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”

Theft is not a valid alternative.

Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.

Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...

Sign the petition to demand Meta is held to account for its unlicensed use of our work here chng.it/bpVN9kpdvd